Tag: behavior management
Bad Structure Helped Kill Tyre Nichols. What’s It Doing in Your Organization?
I say this to clients all the time: Bad structures and bad systems break good people. And broken people break others. But while we may notice when a person behaves badly, we don’t always perceive... Continue reading
Do You Let People Who Want to Help You Succeed Provide Guidance?
We’re all familiar with people who don’t take feedback well, who close up like a clam or justify their behavior vociferously. In the last couple of weeks, though, I’ve seen two distinct responses to receiving... Continue reading
Advice in Six Steps to Help You Handle the Challenge of Behavior Change
Leaders often find that it’s harder than they expected to get people to change their behavior—not only to ask them to change, but also to explain how to make the actual change. Many execs are... Continue reading
How to Easily Tell When It’s Time to Take Action on a Problem
Over the past two weeks, multiple leaders have asked me how to know if they’re overreacting to someone’s behavior or, conversely, if they’re letting something problematic go on too long. If they act too soon,... Continue reading
How to Warn a Long-Time Employee They’re Falling Down on the Job
In our Zoom session last week, one of my executive coaching clients asked how he could give more effective correction and direction to a tenured team member. He knew what the content of the feedback... Continue reading
When Departments Fight, Is It More About the People or the Work?
If interdepartmental disagreements are not part of your daily life, you can skip reading this piece. But I hear about these situations frequently, and two cases of this kind of dispute came my way just... Continue reading
Why Let Automatic Emotional Habits Lead You Astray? Think This Way Instead
In an odd coincidence last week, three different clients described the difficulties they’re experiencing because of their dislike for or distress about someone they work with. The circumstances in the three cases were quite different,... Continue reading